California Spring Wildflower Photography

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April 3 2008

Hillsides and canyon blanketed with native California wildflowers

This looks inviting

 

Cottonwood Canyon California wildflowers

A dry riverbed appears to flow with gold

 

goldflields and lupine covering a hillside

Yellow and purple, Goldfields and Lupine

 

California blue and gold

California blue and gold

 

macro view of a Goldfield blossom

Spring is in the air

 

Common Madia stands proud

Common Madia stands proud

 

Phacelia in bloom

Phacelia were in abundance

 

lupin flower tip

Close up view of a Lupine tip

 

A beautiful purple wildflower

I plan on learning the names of these flowers

 

Some of the flowers growing at ground level were amazingly small

Some of the flowers growing at ground level were amazingly small

 

elegant little purple wildflowers

And elegant

 

tiny little white and gold wildflowers

It was challenging photographing them in the wind

 

Tidytips in bloom

These are the only white Tidytips I found

 

Blue-Dick flowers

Blue Dicks were blooming

 

macro close up photo of a fiddleneck

Fiddlenecks were a common sight

 

selective focus photo of a tiny little wildflower

I kind of like this photo

 

pretty flowers

Same species as the previous photo

 

The sun was setting quickly behind the canyon walls

The sun was setting quickly behind the canyon walls

 

back lit yellow blossoms

Stretching their necks for the final rays of sun

 

sunset in Cottonwood Canyon

Fiddlenecks in the foreground, Goldfields on the hills, and many other in between

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